Peter Arnold: John Alexander Collection - Australia before European Settlement and Natural History, 71925, Prahran VIC

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 19, 2025 - July 19, 2025
Page Size: 168 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 DICK, James.

A geological and prospecting expedition which filled
many blank spaces on the map. Mr R. L. Jack, geologist and Mr James Crosbie, prospector.

Port Douglas 1913 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
27 DIGGLES, Silvester.

Companion to Gould's handbook; or, a synopsis of the birds of Australia.

Brisbane 1877 AUD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
28 DUDLEY, Sir Robert.

Carta particolare della costa Australe scoperta dall' Olandesi.

[Florence 1646 AUD 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 Unknown
29 EYRE, Edward John.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the years 1840-41.

London 1845 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
30 FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret, compte de.

Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769, to the south-east of New Guinea, with the subsequent visits to the same lands by English navigators, who gave them new names.

London 1791 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
31 FLINDERS, Matthew.

Matthew Flinders's narrative of his voyage in the Schooner Francis, 1798.

[London], 1946 AUD 800.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
32 [FOIGNY, Gabriel de].

A new discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the southern world, by James Sadeur, a Frenchman, who, being cast there by a shipwrack, lived thirty-five years in that country, and gives a particular description of the manners, customs, religion, laws, s

London 1693 AUD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
33 FORSTER, George.

A voyage round the world in His Majesty's Britannic Sloop Resolution, commanded by Captain James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, and 5.

London 1777 AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
34 FOSTER, Thomas.

Review of the labours of several explorers of Australia. Also, the narrative of Mr. John King, sole survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition.

Melbourne and Sydney 1863 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
35 GOLD FIELDS AND EUREKA.

A group of Victorian Parliamentary Papers, Melbourne, 1851-58:

Melbourne 1851-58: AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
36 GOULD, John.

A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands.

London, 1837-38 [but 1840s. AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
37 GOULD, John.

The birds of Australia and the adjacent islands.

London, 1837-38. AUD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 Unknown
38 GOULD, John.

A monograph of the Macropididae, or family of kangaroos.

London 1841-42. AUD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
39 GOULD, John.

The mammals of Australia.

London 1845-63. AUD 150,000.00 - 180,000.00 Unknown
40 [HALL, Joseph].

The discovery of a new world, or a discovery of the South Indies hitherto unknowne.

[London 1609 AUD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
41 HARRIS, John.

Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or a complete collection of voyages and travels .

London 1764 AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
42 THE HISTORY OF NEW HOLLAND, from its first discovery in 1616 to the present time.

With a particular account of its produce and inhabitants and a description of Botany Bay.

London 1787 AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
43 HODGKINSON, Clement.

Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay, with descriptions of the natives, their manners and customs; the geology, natural productions, fertility and resources of that region; first surveyed and explored by order of the Colonial Government.

London 1845 [but 1844. AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
44 HOLT, Joseph.

Memoirs of Joseph Holt, general of the Irish rebels in 1798. Edited from his original manuscript by T. Crofton Croker.

London 1838 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
45 JACK, Robert Logan.

Northmost Australia. Three centuries of exploration, discovery and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula.

London 1921 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
46 JUKES, Joseph Beete.

A sketch of the physical structure of Australia so far as it is present known.

London 1850 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
47 JUST, Patrick.

Australia; or notes taken during a residence in the colonies from the gold discovery in 1851 till 1857.

Dundee 1859 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
48 KELLY, Alexander C.

The vine in Australia.

Melbourne and Sydney 1861 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
49 KING, Phillip Parker.

Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1818 and 1822.

London 1827 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
50 KING, Phillip Parker.

Description of the north-east coast of Australia [Contained in The Nautical Magazine, volume III, numbers 25-27, London, March-May, 1834].

1834 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
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